Problem With Video Sitemap Becuase All Videos Are in he Same URL

[Tug-Agency]

Hi,

I created a video sitemap and now I'm getting an error on webmaster tools because the location for some of the videos is the same.

It says:

Duplicate URL - This URL is a duplicate of another URL in the sitemap. Please remove it and resubmit.

What can I do if all my videos are located in the same URL??

Thanks

[PhilNottingham]

Hey Juan,

I'm afraid there's no easy solution to this one. Google only allows you to submit one video per URL in the sitemap, which makes it tricky for anyone who has a dedicated video page on their site.

Think of it as like traditional keyword targeting - you can't try and target the hundreds of keywords with the same page content and simply having an index of videos shouldn't be able to change this.

My suggestion would be to create new pages for each of your videos - targeting all on-page elements to the relevant keywords for the videos while providing some supporting text and images. Use these pages to define the URL element in your video sitemap and then just submit the indexed page with a single video element. You should then be able to get video results for all the relevant terms, albeit not to a single page.

If you really need users to land on your video index page, then you could think about adding rel=canonical to all the individual pages, but i'm not sure how this would play out regarding video results. Perhaps better would be just to ensure they can access the video index page from the landing pages using good internal linking.

[wojkwasi]

Is there a way you can separate the videos onto unique pages with some text (e.g. transcript) accompanying each vid?

This way you may be able to also keep the one featuring them all.